Bug 2536945

Summary: CVE-2026-81872 inspektor-gadget: OpenTelemetry-Go: Denial of Service via attacker-driven log emission [fedora-all]
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Avinash Hanwate <ahanwate>
Component: inspektor-gadgetAssignee: Kyle Gospodnetich <me>
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Description Avinash Hanwate 2026-09-18 09:46:03 UTC 
Disclaimer: Community trackers are created by Red Hat Product Security team on a best effort basis. Package maintainers are required to ascertain if the flaw indeed affects their package, before starting the update process.

OpenTelemetry-Go is the Go implementation of OpenTelemetry. Prior to version 0.21.0, the go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/log BatchingProcessor can enter a tight CPU loop when attacker-driven log emission fills its asynchronous export buffer while the exporter is backpressured. NewBatchingProcessor wraps the exporter with newBufferExporter(exporter, 1), and the poll loop calls queue.TryDequeue and bufferExporter.EnqueueExport before immediately signaling pollTrigger whenever the queue remains at or above batchSize. Because a failed nonblocking EnqueueExport leaves the queue length unchanged, the processor repeatedly retries without waiting for its ticker, exhausting CPU and degrading or denying service in the embedding process. This issue is fixed in version 0.21.0.